Programme Areas and Partners

Based on its mission,
its mandate, its historical involvement, its capabilities and the present
priorities of politics in Namibia, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation has defined
its current main areas of intervention as follows:

•consolidation of the Namibian democracy and its
institutions,
•support of conceptual and practical efforts for
broad-based economic development and
•promotion of social development and distributional
justice.

In
a rapidly globalising world, one has to be aware that Namibia, as a small
country of just 2 million people, is confronted with major challenges, all of
which it cannot possibly handle on its own.

This
is why the region, in particular the Southern African Development Community
(SADC) sub-region, of which Namibia is a member, has become an increasingly
important ground for institution building, policy development, standard-setting
and exchange of experience regarding common challenges. In view of this
activities within the Southern African regional programmes are rapidly gaining importance
over purely national ones.

FES
pursues this line of activities in close co-operation with its Namibian as well
as its other regional partners, primarily through the organization of
conferences, seminars, workshops, lectures and public dialogues, as well as
through the commissioning of research and the publication of papers,
presentations, and research reports.